Just bought PhpStorm last night and have been loving it. I'm trying to use it at work on Ubuntu 10.04 x64, however, and can't get a launcher from the desktop to work. The IDE launches just fine if I go to PhpStorm's directory and launch the webide.sh script manually in a terminal. It has only failed when trying to go from a launcher or a symlink, though.

Details:Installed in /users/<username>/programs/PhpStorm

Works:$ cd /users/<username>/programs/PhpStorm/bin$ ./webide.sh

Doesn't work:Tried creating a launcher with the following in the execution field:/users/<username>/programs/PhpStorm/bin/webide.sh

When I double-click it, it just sits there-- doesn't launch, no error message, nothing.

So I created a shell script called "phpStorm.sh" which has #!/bin/bashcd /users/<username>/programs/PhpStorm/bin./webide.sh

After making the script executable and putting it into the launcher's execution field, I get the same response: nothing. No errors, no launching.

Follow instructions there:

Open a shell prompt (terminal) and type the following to install JDK and JRE:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

You also need to edit a file called /etc/jvm. This file defines the default system JVM search order. Each JVM should list their JAVA_HOME compatible directory in this file. The default system JVM is the first one available from top to bottom. Open /etc/jvm